NASA Cassini-Huygens Collection

Huygens Titan Mosaic #2

Huygens Titan Mosaic #2

This mosaic from the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer camera on the European Space Agency's Huygens probe combines 17 image triplets, projected from an altitude of 800 meters (2,625 feet). The area covered is approximately 1,300 meters (4,265 feet) across (north at the top of the image). The smallest visible objects visible are less than five meters (16 feet) across, and the dark channels are 30 to 40 meters (98 to 131 feet) wide.

The images were then stitched together using one of several projection algorithms (in this case 'gnomonic') to produce a full mosaic. The images used to construct this mosaic were taken on Jan. 14, 2005.

The Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer is one of two NASA-funded instruments on the probe.

The Cassini-Huygens mission is a cooperative project of NASA, the European Space Agency and the Italian Space Agency. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory, a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, manages the Cassini-Huygens mission for NASA's Science Mission Directorate, Washington, D.C. The Cassini orbiter was designed, developed and assembled at JPL. The Descent Imager/Spectral team is based at the University of Arizona, Tucson, Ariz.

For more information about the Cassini-Huygens mission visit http://saturn.jpl.n…. For more information about the Descent Imager/Spectral Radiometer visit http://www.lpl.ariz…

Credit: ESA/NASA/JPL/Univers ity of Arizona

May 13, 2005

Huygens

probe

mosaic

European Space Agency

Descent

Imager/Spectral Radiometer camera

Saturn

Cassini

Cassini-Huygens

Huygens Probe

Titan

Cassini Orbiter

Descent Imager

Imager

Spectral Radiometer

Saturn

Jet Propulsion Laboratory

California

Washington

Arizona

Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL)

Washington, D.C.

May 13, 2005

2005

SPD-SATRN-1528

http://saturn.jpl.n…